Collar-stuffing machine



(No Model.)

W. FOGLESONG.

COLLAR STUFFING MACHINE.

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NiTED STATES PATENT Fries.

WASHINGTON FOGLESONG, OF DAYTON, OHIO.

COLLAR-FSTUFFING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 349,034, dated September 14, 1886.

Applicaiion filed JanunryQS, i886. Serial No. 189,685. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WAsHINoToN FooLE- sono, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Collar-Stuffing Machines; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to a collar-stuffing machine such as described in my United States Letters Patent No. 275,624, granted to me April 10, 1883; and it consists, mainly, in applying a second set of feeders in such a manner that the two sets of feeders operate alternately and clear each other.

In order that my invention may be clearly understood, I have illustrated in the annexed drawings, and will proceed to describe, the form thereof which I have used with practical success.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the collarstuffing machine described in my aforesaid Letters Patent, embodying the modification V of construction of the feeding devices which constitute my present invention. trates a perspective view of the feeders detached.

The samcletters of reference indicate identical parts in both the figures.

The general construction and mode of operation of the collar-striding machine illustrated in Fig. 1. of the annexed drawings are precisely the same as those of the machine described in my aforesaid patent, to which ref-- erence may behad for a full description there of, the following description being confined to the particular modification referred to.

The feeders consist of two sets of toothed bars, A A and A A, which are arranged to operate in upwardly-diverging recesses B B, formed in the slanting back of the hopper. The feeders A are provided at their lower ends with vertical shanks a a, whereby they are pivoted to a horizontal arm, I), on a rockshaft, b. The feeders A are rigidly connected together at their unsupported lower ends, and are provided at their upper ends, which pro ject alittle above thehopper, with rearwardlyprojecting rigid arms A A Each feeder A Fig. 2 illusis pivoted at its upper end, which also projects somewhat above the hopper, to one arm, 0, of a lever, G, the other arm, 0, of which is made in the form of a hook, and is pivotally connected to the arm A of the adjacent feeder A. This lever O is pivoted at about its center to a bracket-arm, D, bolted or otherwise secured to the hopper.

On the bottom of one or both of the recesses B B is a projection or fixed cam, E, formed with an inclined surface, which fits in a correspondingly-shaped notch in the under side of the feeders A A, (one or both.) This in clined surface serves to project the lower end of the feeders A forward beyond the plane of the feeders A A when the feeders A are'descending. Springs F, attached to the under side of the arms A A of the feeders A A, tend to hold these feeders down and in firm contact with the projection E. The rocking of the rock-shaft causes the feeders to descend and ascend in alternate order, so that one set begins to feed as the other set begins its return. At the same time the feeders A are swayed to and fro, and the feeders Alikewise to a lesser extent, so that the feeding of one set clears the straw from the teeth of the other set. The feeders A A operate on opposite sides of the stuffing-rod, while the lower ends of the feeders A A operate directly over the stuffingrod, descending when making a feed-stroke close down to the stuffing-rod. The converging arrangement of the feeders possesses the advantages of enabling them to take straw nearer the sides of the funnel-shaped hopper.

It is obvious that the connection of the respective feeders to the levers may be modified without a departure from the invention. I prefer to use the springs F; but they may be omitted.

I. claim as my invention- 1. Thecombin'atiou, substantially as before set forth, of the stuffing-rod and two sets of alternately-feeding feeders, all operating substantiaily as described.

2. The combination, substantially as before set forth, of the stuffing-rod and two sets of converging alternately-feeding feeders.

3. The combination, substantially as before set forth, of the rock-shaft, a feeder connected with its lower end or shank to an arm on said rock-shaft, a lever, to one arm of which the upper end of the feeder is connected, a secfeeder arranged alongside of the first above- IO 0nd feeder arranged alongside of the first mentioned feeder and connected to the other above-mentioned feeder and connected to the arm of saidlever, the fixed eam,and the spring.

other arm of said lever, and the fixed cam. In testimony whereof 1|: aflix my signature 5 4-. The combination, substantially as before in presence of two witnesses.

set forth, of the rock-shaft, a feeder connected \VASHINGTON' l OG'LliSljflG.

with its lower end or shank to an arm on said \Vitnesses:

rock-shaft, a lever, to one arm of which the i A. A. \VIN'JERS,

upper end of the feeder is connected, a second i S. limms .ToNns. 

